Charlemagne 4th Grade

le 12 au 16 décembre 2022

Upcoming Dates

• December 19-January 3:  Winter break
• Wednesday, January 4:  First day back to school for students

Please remember to let both teachers and Bernadette know if your student will be missing any of the upcoming week. It very much helps us with our planning. Thank you to the parents who have already informed us.

What’s up! Quoi de neuf?

Please make sure to send your child to school in proper footwear and a water-repellent jacket when the weather is threatening. Students will go out to recess unless the principal decides the weather prevents it. If your child is ill, or has had a fever or vomited within the previous 24 hours, please keep your child home. Please continue to follow current Covid rules as well. If your child will be absent, please email both teachers (kincaid_j@4j.lane.edu and hopper_s@4j.lane.edu) and Bernadette (conover_b@4j.lane.edu) or please call in and leave a message on the school line (541) 790-7080.

Le français:

•We speak exclusively in French during French class.

•We write in complete sentences and can identify many parts of speech.

•We use kind words and actions when interacting with others. 

French vocabulary homework this week concentrates on words that contain un accent grave (`). Most students did very well on their vocabulary quiz last week. In class, we continue to work to understand the difference between un accent aigu and un accent grave (`). Here is the homework:  vocab è nov 2022 l Vocab 

We’re working on learning body parts. We have drawn and labeled a body and will do other activities in class to learn body parts. This will continue into January.

We have completed formal cursive instruction, and we’ll be using it daily to continue to master challenging letters and links. We continue doing Tap’Touche French typing program once or twice a week. 

We are using this week to work primarily on writing in French and plan to complete the most recent “J’observe…” writing project, “Une tornade de poissons.”

We’re also working on bookmarks for our exchange with our first-grade buddies on the last day of school, December 16.

Most students have completed the “Moi!” project, and they will come home during Winter Break. Students who work more slowly or have gotten a bit behind for one reason or another may bring the project home in the coming weeks to catch up, but will complete the project at school.

               

Les sciences: 

We did our first experiment on how landforms are created and used trays & large amounts of soil & water to model how erosion (l’érosion) and deposition (le dépôt) occur. We are waiting for the soil to dry so that we can try the same experiment in a flooding situation. We’ll also begin working on a coloring and cloze project to help better understand how landforms are created.

Math

Unit 4: Decomposing & Composing Fractions for Addition and Subtraction

Here are some key concepts of the this new unit:

• We can decompose (breakdown) fractions in more than one way.
• We can label fractions on  a number line to model addition and subtraction
  
• We can add and subtract fractions with like denominators.
  

English

Wordstudy:  This week we will analyze words with long /ē/ spellings. 

Literature & Writing: To wrap up our first major English unit “The Great Heart,” students will review vocabulary through some games and activities, and then they will complete a final quiz. Last week, we finished the short novel Love that Dog by Sharon Creech. On Monday and Tuesday this week, students will compose a final informational paragraph identifying a major theme in the novel and citing evidence to support their reasoning. To wrap up our study of poetry, students will have some time to write and perform poetry as well.

Information about the Wit and Wisdom curriculum for 4th grade can be found here.

 

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